ICN launches new report on COVID-19 pandemic and international supply & mobility of nurses

International Council of Nurses Geneva, Switzerland, 29 July 2020 – "The International Council of Nurses’ (ICN) new report "COVID-19 and the International Supply of Nurses" reveals the perilous state of the global supply of nurses and how it has left so many poorer states with fewer nurses than they need. It also calls for the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurse mobility to be taken into full consideration.The report, written by Professor James Buchan, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney and ICN Chief Executive Officer Howard Catton, released today, underlines that if high-income countries continue to recruit large numbers of overseas nurses, they will undermine the ability of low and middle-income countries to cope with the virus and dangerously weaken their health systems. (Photo: Logo ICN)

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